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Six cops, five others killed in Iraq

AGENCIES, Baghdad
Shia militants and US forces battled yesterday in Baghdad's Sadr City slum, and a mortar barrage slammed into a busy eastern Baghdad neighborhood, marking a fresh round of violence in the capital. Five people died and dozens were wounded, officials said.
The violence came as Iraqis in the holy city of Najaf cleaned up broken glass and rubble and returned to their devastated offices and shops after three weeks of devastating combat.
Dozens of municipal workers
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were out for the first time in weeks, sweeping debris off roads lined with battle-scarred buildings, ripped up by US bombs.
Meanwhile, six Iraqi policemen were shot dead and 11 people wounded yesterday when gunmen travelling in two minibuses opened fire on a checkpoint in the restive city of Baquba, north of Baghdad, medics said.
The attack happened on a main road in the eastern Al-Tahir district of the city at about 4:00 pm (1200 GMT), said Brigadier GeneralAbdul Salam Mahmud.
Police manning the checkpoint came under a hail of bullets, before the gunmen took flight in their minibuses.
A doctor said six people were killed and 11 others wounded -- nine of them police officers.
The fighting flared in Sadr City, an al-Sadr stronghold in Baghdad, as gunbattles broke out between militants and US forces.
US soldiers in Humvees drove through the impoverished neighborhood with loudspeakers, demanding people stay home because coalition forces were "cleaning the area of armed men," according to an Associated Press reporter at the scene. Sporadic gunfire could be heard.
Saad al-Amili, a Health Ministry official, said three people were killed and 25 were wounded in the skirmishes.
Militants fired assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades at American troops patrolling the area, said US Capt. Brian O'Malley of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, adding that US forces suffered no casualties.
As the battles raged, insurgents fired a round of mortars into a crowded eastern Baghdad neighborhood, killing two boys washing cars in a street near the former Iraqi National Olympic Committee building, said Interior Ministry spokesman Col. Adnan AbdulRahman.
Witnesses said at least four mortars also landed within an hour in the same area in Palestine street, a main Baghdad thoroughfare, as cars drove by. Panicked people scrambled for safety.
The dead teenagers were taken to a nearby morgue, where tearful relatives pounded their chests in grief and others hugged and kissed the boy's bodies. At least six other people were injured, said Bashir Mohammed of Baghdad's al-Kindi hospital.
A separate volley of mortar rounds also fell near the Palestine Hotel, where foreign journalists and contractors stay.
One 120 mm mortar shell fell near Firdous Square, the roundabout in front of the Palestine where US forces helped Iraqis topple a statue of Saddam Hussein on April 9, 2003. The shell didn't explode and could be seen sticking out of the street.